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It seems like a nice town: quiet and civilized. They're run the bar girls out of town and the miners go some place else for their drinking. Everything is shut on Sunday. Marshall Jock Mahoney keeps things quiet. Then gunfighter Dale Robertson rides into town and opens it up with a series of double eagles and some rowdy boys. He wants two things: Mara Corday, and revenge on Mahoney for taking her from him.

There were several movies in the 1950s about how the thin veneer of civilization was ready to crack and reveal the savagery underneath, and this looks like an attempt to apply it to the western, where there was always the possibility that a saloon entertainer would have a dress so low cut you could see the top of her bosom, or a crowd would break a prisoner out of jail and hang him. Robertson and Mahoney seem awfully calm and controlled, while everyone else seems mildly hysterical While there's some hinting at unpleasant things the respectable people in town might have done, none of it is explicit, except for preacher John Dehner losing his temper. It's very watchable all the way through, but the suspense goes on a trifle too long.

Despite the wooden acting of its stars, this film's intriguing themes and well-written dialog elevate it to something out of the ordinary. "A Day of Fury" is about the end of the Old West, embodied by the gunfighter, and its replacement by "decent folk" and their values. However, one gunfighter returns to town and exposes the hypocrisy and small-mindedness that lies beneath the veneer of civilization. This film is a must-see for those who love Clint Eastwood's "High Plains Drifter" as it seems to have inspired that film to a large degree. (One character remarks that if Jagade is allowed to stay, "He'll turn this town into hell.") Despite the emotionless acting of its leads and the irritating, strangely pronounced name of the main character, I enjoyed this film a great deal for its cynical view of the human character and its exposure of human weakness and fear.

I am in my mid 70s. I grew up on westerns shown on TV though I first think of TV series such as Cheyenne and Have Gun Will Travel. If you want to see a pretty typical movie western from that era, A Day Of Fury would do the job. It might have been a bit more of a morality tale than the average, but the acting was just so-so. I had a tough time thinking that Dale Robertson was the bad guy. It took constant mental reminders. This may have been the only villain he ever played on TV or in the movies. It's the only time I've ever seen him in that capacity.

Anyhow, I gave the movie a 6-star rating. I guess that's kind of the going rate.

The nation's sweeping expansion westward . Standing the path on the new civilization were undisciplined , untamed men , the gunfighters whose way of life was coming to an end . The final chapter to the long , violent struggle was written on a summer sunday by a man called.. Jagade . It is a time when law is coming to the west and begins with a manhunt in which a Marshal (Jock Mahoney) is saved by a passing gunman named Jagade (Dale Robertson) donning his six-guns . When the gunslinger arriving a little town called West End that has the usual shops and buildings, as General merchandise, Livery stable, Hardware, Barber shop, Saloon , Hotel and of course the Church, then he finds again the town Marshal . Subsequently , the situation is further complicated due to a former loving relation between Jagade and Sharman Fulton (Mara Corday) who is about to marry Marshal Allan Burnett .The Story of Jagade...last of the MAVERICK KILLERS! This Was The Day Of The Rope And The Ravager!

This Western is set in a time when law was expanding westward , appearing a mysterious stranger , who comes to embitter some embattled citizens. As gunslinger Jagade arrives in a law-abiding god-fearing town and he arranges to change the townsfolk into scoff-law sinners , while the town Marshal Allan Burnett is powerless due to a moral debt to Jagade , and things go wrong when the sheriff learns the previous relationship between his fiancée and Jagade . Well crafted Western with interesting screenplay by James Edmiston and Oscar Brodney , displaying twists and turns . Although atmospheric , it's also downbeat and sometimes just downright nasty . The story is almost terrific as the drifter comes to strange frontier town just in time to reckoning villagers and bandits. This stirring picture contains a powerful examination of morality and hypocrisy on people of a little town . Dale Roberson plays decently as an avenger gunslinger , though only this time the pistolero appears to have been sent from hell rather than heaven to carry out a vendetta . Jock Mahoney gives a good acting as a Marshal who is caught between the town citizens fears and the debt he owes the gunslinger. While the third starring , Mara Corday , shows brilliantly her beauty and and gorgeous face . Good casting with several notorious and familiar secondaries as Carl Benton Reid , Jan Merlin , Dee Carroll, Malcolm Atterbury , Phil Chambers , James Bell , and John Dehner as a reverend.

This Universal Pictures movie with great main and support cast, being efficiently produced and competently directed . Furthermore, it contains a colorful and glimmer cinematography by Ellis Carter . As well as rousing and stirring musical score by Irving Gertz and Henry Mancini , though uncredited .This outlandish motion picture produced by Robert Arthur was professionally directed by Harmon Jones. He was a craftsman who worked as a production manager, editor, producer and filmmaker. He directed all kinds of genres as Westerns, drama, Thriller, Comedy, Film Noir, such as : The beast of Budapest, Wolf Larsen, Gorilla at large, Target zero, Canyon river, City of bad men , The pride of St Louis, Bloodhound of Broadway, As young a you feel. And he directed a lot of episodes of popular TV series as Land of giants , Death valley, Voyage to the bottom of the sea, The Virginian, Iron Horse, Perry Mason, Gunslinger, Daniel Boone, Iron Horse, The Monroe, The Zorro, among others. Rating 6. 5/10. Decent and above average Western.

Two of television's best known cowboy heroes, Dale Robertson from Tales Of Wells Fargo and the Range Rider Jock Mahoney star in this unusual western about a town full of hypocrites. Imagine High Noon had we probed a bit deeper into the town of Hadleyville and its citizens who would not back up Gary Cooper and you have A Day Of Fury.

Notorious gunslinger Robertson arrives in the town and the townspeople are righteously aroused. They want Marshal Mahoney to just run this guy out of town. But Mahoney's life was once saved by him and with no wants or warrants out on him, Robertson is a free man until he actually commits a crime.

Which works out fine as Robertson bit by bit turns things around completely and it's the marshal these fine citizens turn on. You have to see how he does it, more I will not say. There's also the complicating factor that Mahoney's fiancé Mara Corday has history with Robertson.

A trio of standout supporting performances come from Jan Merlin as a local tough, John Dehner as the town minister, and most of all Dee Carroll as the spinster school teacher who is a repressed and tragic figure.

Mahoney and Robertson have some good chemistry in their scenes. A nice mixture of antagonism and respect goes into their dialog.

A Day Of Fury is a real sleeper of a western. Caught it by accident almost, glad I did.